Wild Thing ♥ | Shakira & Adam Levine

Chapter 3 - Choose One ✿

 Chapter 3: 'Choose One'

Shakira moaned from the warm Californian sun tapping sunlight against her face. She yawned, running her hand through her hair to untangle the morning knots in her blonde curls. After blinking for several times, she, eventually managed to completely open her eyes. Gerard was no longer nearby. As she felt the empty sheets near her, she understood: he spent the night on the couch.  

Slowly getting up from her bed, and putting her hair in a messy bun, she made her way downstairs.

“Hey” – she whispered, barely audible.

“Morning” – just as quietly answered from the kitchen.

As she started walking into kitchen, she continued “I am sorry, Gerard. I just really wanted to go for a walk.” – She was barely holding back her tears.

“And you forgive me too” – he said, turning to face her, “I should have never talked to you like that”

Approaching him, she hugged her, burying her head into his chest.

“Okay. I forgive you.” – Once again, Shakira looked up at him, smiling lightly.

Hours have passed and the shooting of another episode of the voice was now finished. It seemed to Adam that the whole day, because of unknown reasons, Shakira was ignoring him. Wanting to know the reason, Adam kept trying to get to talk to her, but, always receiving a cold answer to all his questions. However, Shakira, herself couldn’t take it. And probably that was the reason that Shakira decided to talk to Adam, no matter how hard for her it would be.

Walking down the corridor, Shakira stopped in front of Adam’s dressing room, doubting whether she should knock on it, or just go in, or should she talk to him at all? Taking a deep breath one more time, she put het hand on the knob, to push the door open a second later.

“Hey, Adam” – she was kind of afraid to see how his reaction could be “Listen, yesterday, whatever happened between us…that was a mistake… and I hope you didn’t think that there could be something between us. Because it can’t” – she said.

The words she was saying were killing herself, she knew how much she liked Adam, although it was just a day or two they met, but she simply had to stop herself from doing this.

Adam, that was now up from his chair and was looking at her with fear in his eyes, immediately looked down.

No words were spoken. No words were needed to be spoken. The both of them understood perfectly what was going on between them. What Shakira said was nonsense, they both knew that both of them simply hoped there could actually be something between them.

But four words, that left Adam’s mouth confirmed both of their thoughts.

“That's what I thought”

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Minutes, hours, days, and a week has now passed from their conversation in Adam’s dressing room. Every single day became more awkwad with each other during the week. The tension between them was noticible by everyone.

The week has been tough for Adam. He kept convincing himself that the day a week ago was just a little hookup with Shakira. As she said, that was a mistake. Mistake, that was making him suffer, while the other part of that mistake looked rather happy with her ‘family’.

His heart was literally in a battle with his mind – a battle of control. But, as days passed, he realized: he didn’t like her. He loved her.

However, it is said never judge a book by its cover. That was true. Sometimes people have to smile to hide all the problems, or the pain, all the insecurities they have. A smile, which in actuality causes even more pain. This was exactly how Shakira’s condition was.

They kept ignoring each other, which was intolerable for both of them.

They knew, they knew perfectly that this question couldn’t be left with no solution.

They knew they had to talk it out.

And there were only two ways of getting out of this thing – either forget each other, or connect with each other for eternity. And they chose one…